In the past, I’ve started playing at classic’s every iteration, and dropped it during leveling halfway, because I’ve felt extremely left behind. I like the leveling, I like wandering the world, I enjoy completing quest zones, I am not here for your [you knw the chat spamming addon] guide speedrun to 60.
I’ve started anniversary with a step back, I will just continue at my pace, in the freetime I’m able to find, and see where it gets. My 2 most played characters, one alone, one with wife, both between lv30 and lv40, and now ZG is announced for the start of May. I never got to raid classic when it was era appropriate, and it feels like I’m lucky to get there by the end of it at this pace. I see plenty of people around the mid level range, I’m sure lot of those are alts but I still wonder.
I wouldn’t mind the relatively quick updates to tiers I guess, I understand progression is quicker with every raid already known to players, but I personally wouldn’t have minded a lot bigger headstart until endgame content keeps rolling in. My ideal wow server would be one where I find 2 evenings a week to play and still get to at least have a taste of all content when it’s relevant. I’m pretty sure I’m minority there
I was/am really invested in anniversary realms, wanted to make a billion toons, try classic alliance which I’ve always missed out on but still main horde. That’s a long list even for people with free time, I’m pretty sure that’s irrealistic. I still wanted to bring it up where y’all are on that.
your best bet is era if you aren’t interested in the temporary speedrace that is anniversary
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Bear in mind that you’re on a timer, and at some point the journey will end. You have only limited time to play vanilla zones, limited time for TBC and assuming they move onward into WotLK limited time to enjoy that too.
What happens afterward is anyone’s guess. Maybe Anniversary Realms will continue into the hated Cataclysm expansion? Or maybe it just comes to an end and all characters are simply deleted. We have no way of knowing.
Has blizzard ever just abandoned and deleted characters?
I highly doubt they will turn round and say “ok end of anniversary wave bye to your characters”.
I think it’ll be wrath era personally. They realised it was a big error to not setup wrath era at the time and this is there road back to fix that error of judgement.
yes era characters were deleted if you didnt manage to clone them before sending them off to TBC, i lost multiple characters with tidal charm on firemaw due to this
and ofc cloning them cost money.
agree. its a hundred million more likely that they choose wotlk as an era over tbc. tbc era is never coming.
To be fair I don’t mind going through the expansions, I sort of predict all classic realms except maybe era will eventually merge back to being retail realms, at least at this rate of progression, it is bound to catch up. But leveling in classic is to me a main part of the game, can take a lot of time, and there are big regions to explore. Wife’s blown away by the size and been to like quarter of it? Endgame content does get more repetative / location specific, etc. Feels like there’s not a lot of time allocated for that
I started similarly with 2019 Classic and I was level 52 after 6 months, at this time I stopped playing because I felt that I’m behind everyone and there’s no way for me to progress in MC with similar minded people.
This time I did power leveling. I actually tried to use addon with one character, it felt very efficient, but in the end I abandoned that character, because it wasn’t my way of leveling. So instead I doubled down the efforts, spent like 16 hours/day, still was late for first MC reset, but overall I was able to participate in proper MC progression with other fresh people, so this time I’m actually happy.
Blizzard makes the game for speed levelers. Their primary audience is speed levelers. So if you want to have fun, you need to be speed leveler, one way or another. There’s no option to stay behind.
I also would love at least one year head start before any raid opens, but modern audience will not play that game and Blizzard is about getting subscriptions. So you either adapt or find another game or another way to enjoy this game.
pace for me at current game is fine, many people still gona play when tbc is coming out, I feel as druid tank classes gets more balanced then. Right now there so many meta minders that won’t even let druid play as feral in raids. I play casual and i have only 1 character at 60. Raids and guild i play with let me tank as druid and we progress pretty good with clear both mc and bwl pretty quick. I enjoy as it is.
Hmmm, that’s not entirely accurate.
As I recall you had a choice, there were 2 buttons and you could keep your character EITHER in era or naturally progress with the server into TBC.
Now given that your character is a single object it makes sense that it can go to one or the other. If you want it in both it requires duplicating the character. Blizzard did in fairness provide plenty of time for players to do this.
I myself didn’t clone and regret it but that’s on me.
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yes thats what i said. the characters were deleted if you didn’t clone them
No, they either moved with progression to tbc or stayed in era.
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so they were deleted in TBC or Era unless if you bought clone service or not?
Technically only the unused clones where deleted. The characters still exists but only on the TBC / Progression line.
unused according to who
this is a really strange hill to die on
unless you paid irl money one version of your c haracter was deleted
no amount of double speak is going to change that reality
There was only ever one version of your character, unless you somehow managed to get 2 characters with the same name at classic launch and level them together to 60…
When TBC happened, we all had 1 instance of each of our characters. We then had to make a decision where we wanted that singleton to go, era or tbc.
If you wanted a character in BOTH clients you needed to get it cloned, which is essentially paying for a 60 boost but with your characters spec/gear.
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so the character wasn’t deleted it just didn’t get a level boost to 60 so you couldnt continue playing it, ok
good to know that our characters were gracefully liberated from our accounts and not deleted.
I think the issue you seem to be confusing is this.
At the end of vanilla 2019 you had 1 version of your character. Not 2.
You either let the character move into tbc as per the server, OR, you selected to keep it in era in which case it would NOT exist in TBC.
If you wanted to have 2 copies of that 1 character, you had to pay for it.
When the game moves into a new expansion so does your character, you don’t get a second version each time.
If so we’d all have like 10 copies of the same character for each time they released a new expansion.
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This game is only for speed levellers if you insist on keeping up with the rat race - the rush to clear content before it progresses into the next phase.
If you don’t care about the rat race, as I don’t then there’s no need for speed levelling.
That’s one of the good things about playing on Classic Era. Static content that you don’t need to rush to keep on top of because it never changes.
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My 2019 character was deleted. When I came back at the end of WoTLK my priest was nowhere to be found, not on Era or any other place.
Blizzard did not delete any characters. If it is not on the Cata realms now, you (or your brother) deleted it.